Book Club selection

Monday
After yesterday’s humidity, today was more comfortable, and after breakfast enjoyed outside, I stayed outside reading more of my book for Book Club this afternoon. I’m more of a fiction reader on the whole, so I wasn’t sure how I’d find this months book, Teddy and Booker T.: how two American Icons blazed a path for racial equality, by Brian Kilmeade. In actual fact, however, I found it quite readable, and for me, not being an expert in American history, very informative. I say it is readable, in the sense of the writing style, but at the same time I found reading it at this time quite difficult in so far as any progress that had been made over last century regarding race relations in this country seems to be currently eroding. However, what is clear is these two men, Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington, from vastly different backgrounds, one from wealth and privilege, the other the son of an enslaved woman, raised without a father, were both remarkable, driven, passionate and persistent men. Book club was at Carole’s charming little home in Madeira, and we had a good turnout and good discussion.
Roger was out at Trustees meeting at church in the evening, so it was a late dinner.